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Monday, December 2, 2013

I saw a poster here in Haiti today. It was published by UNICEF about children's rights. It was a ...

I saw a poster here in Haiti today. It was published by
UNICEF aboutchildren's rights. It was a
mixture of French and Creole. The bottom half of the poster had the
"alphabet" of children's rights. I was unable to understand these
two: K comme Kif kif - Tous les enfants sont égoux en droit. Y comme Yanvalou -
L'enfant a droit à sa propre culture. Can you help me understand these?
Especially kif kif and yanvalou.K comme kif kif - Tous les enfants sont egaux en droit.K as in kif kif - All children have equal rightskifkif is French for equal, sameY comme Yanvalou - L'enfant a droit à sa propre culture.Y as in Yanvalou - The child has rights to have his own cultureYanvalou - cultural Haitian dance